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I question the sanity of whoever let this man write a third story for Doctor Who after he produced the absolutely awful stories that are Medicinal Purposes and Pier Pressure. This one is slightly better than both of them because it's inoffensive and marginally more interesting. It still is far from good. I don't get what the obsession is with this time period, I think it's really overdone in Doctor Who though in fairness this one changes it up a bit by having an American setting instead of a London one. The idea of interfering with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is fairly interesting but goes absolutely nowhere.

Robert Knox (from Medicinal Purposes) is here for some reason. He's now teamed up with the the Indo (from Pier Pressure) and I'm gonna be honest I have no idea why Robert Ross was so proud of two of the dullest concepts ever that he decided to put them both in this story. I feel bad for 6 and Evelyn considering they got all this guy's stories. He has no idea how to write these characters and it's incredibly annoying. Normally in a bad story you still have the main cast on top-form as usual but they just aren't here and every bit of dialogue they say seems so out of character. This story follows the trend of forgetting that Evelyn is supposed to be a lecturer of HISTORY and has her not knowing or forgetting basic historical facts. The Doctor is insufferable, he's written like all the worst bits of his Season 22 characterisation and none of the growth that audio has brought him.

Overall, a rubbish story that I wouldn't recommend to anyone, I'm glad that I'll never have to do another story by this guy again.

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